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by dessimus 2y ago
To be fair, if a hammer is sitting unused in a toolbox for 10 years, you might find it does "need an update", as the handle might have dried out and rotted, needing replacement. Woodworkers and machinists probably spend as much ti
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by dessimus 2y ago
>E.g. poland is pou luhnd and polish is paa lish. There's two pronunciations of 'polish' though: the one you mentioned being what one does to grandmother's candlesticks, and 'pou lish' referring to someone o
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by dessimus 2y ago
TBF, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company became IBM in the 1920's when they were selling punch card machines to businesses and governments around the world, including the Nazis thru their German subsidiary, Hollerith.
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by dessimus 2y ago
If Cooler Master could charge enterprise computing prices for their consumer level gear, they probably would be.
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by dessimus 2y ago
If you consider solar only working for 50% of the day on average, "perpetual".
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by dessimus 2y ago
I mean sure, if you want to give away your data via Recall.
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by dessimus 2y ago
Sue the police department for false arrest odds are good it would make the media.
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by dessimus 2y ago
In the eyes of the law, yes. But that does not mean that a child wasn't damaged due to the abuse by a person the law could not convict. Or are you of the opinion that that 100% of sexual abusers have been caught, tried, convicted, and
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by dessimus 2y ago
Just because charges were dropped doesn't mean they were innocent. It could mean there wasn't enough reliable witness testimony, physical evidence, or the evidence was tainted in a way that the prosecution did not believe they wou
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by dessimus 2y ago
Are there examples of DMCA being used in a positive manner?
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by dessimus 2y ago
Or the automatic pilot from Airplane.
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by dessimus 2y ago
Build a bridge out of her!
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by dessimus 2y ago
What are the "absolutely horrible, irresponsible stuff related to (for example) masks" that you speak of?
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by dessimus 2y ago
Based on my experience as an analyst of Looney Tunes, it would appear that being a Director of ACME Widgets is right up his alley.
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by dessimus 2y ago
DOGE fans that don't realize that the GAO already exists.
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by dessimus 2y ago
But that's part of DOGE, not the DOD. Then again, DOGE would probably think TESLA is more efficient than a TLA.
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by dessimus 2y ago
CBP. We are citizens, and were returning from a trip.
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by dessimus 2y ago
> holding your passport. When my spouse and I crossed through US customs this past spring, they called us by our names and waved us on before even getting our passports out to hand to the customs officer. This was at BWI, fwiw.
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by dessimus 2y ago
The ones staying with VMware, permanently or near term, are likely using products for which there are not good replacements. The open source alternatives can do what ESXi does sure, but its progressively more difficult to replicate VSAN (in
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by dessimus 2y ago
> a magnet school, so already presumably for "gifted" students, that in turn had advanced courses like honors or AP. I too attended a magnet school, but the point of magnet schools were not actually for 'gifted' stude
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by dessimus 2y ago
Except there cannot always be a free market for healthcare. That only would works for preventative care assuming that there is enough supply that you can make a decision because there might be shortages of a specialty you need and cannot ge
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by dessimus 2y ago
>To get the most even cuts of an onion by making radial cuts, one should aim towards a point 55.73066% the radius of the onion below the center. This is close, but different from, the 61.803% claimed in the Youtube video at the top. Wife
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by dessimus 2y ago
I can not imagine there is a statistically relevant number of people that travel to Manhattan to specifically to grocery shop.
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by dessimus 2y ago
If one wants to ignore that German scientists were working on the bomb as well, and the American scientists just had more resources to pull it off first.
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by dessimus 2y ago
Why would Red Hat partner with Microsoft to bring Slackware to WSL? That should be Slackware's decision, no?
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by dessimus 2y ago
AlmaLinux 9 is in the Microsoft Store for free as well, if looking for another RHEL clone.
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by dessimus 2y ago
We'd much rather give away our tax dollars to the military-industrial complex to go get the oil than risk consumers having to pay more at the pump on tariffs.
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by dessimus 2y ago
I would think most if not all of the enterprise distros would object as generally they lock their kernel versions for the duration of a "release" lifecycle and backport security fixes from newer kernels to the version they chose.
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by dessimus 2y ago
I mean... objectively "10 Coolest Things about New Jersey" is a worse song, but let's not pretend Bloodhound Gang's music is meant to be taken seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8hFuDoYq8
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by dessimus 2y ago
He also states doing zero research on the product space and just bought one, presumably the cheapest, easiest one to procure for the video. So while much better versions may exist, he was only showing they do and not making a statement on t

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